Romero, who plays first base and pitcher, hit .358 with five doubles and three home runs, and had a 7-6 record with a 3.36 ERA and 85 strikeouts to help the Raptors to a 15-9 record. Romero was a first team Centennial League selection.

From the top — that’d be Frontier Academy’s Hannah Braun, who has 17 goals and a state-best 40 points — each of Colorado’s most potent scorers do so in spurts.

Middle Park’s Hannah Levett, who is second in the state with 33 points and 15 goals, had a four-goal, one-assist game against Braun and Frontier Academy. (Braun had a goal and an assist in that game; three days later, against Berthoud, she scored four goals and assisted on another.)

The state’s big-school scoring leading, Lillie Toaspern of Denver East, scored six of her nine goals against Denver South last Friday — and notched all three assists.

That’s not to say there hasn’t been consistency: Braun and Levett each have five multi-goal games, including three games of three goals or more. Jacqueline Rigali, she of 12 goals and two assists, has multi-goal games in five of Frederick’s six games.

Recruiting quick hits:

• Arvada West’s Paul Thurston picked up his tenth offer on Friday, this one from Arizona, according to ColoradoPrepReport.com. The Wildcats join Arizona State, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Stanford and Utah in vying for the 6-5, 274-pound offensive tackle.

• Valor Christian lineman Alex Kozan was offered by Illinois, according to ColoradoPrepReport.com. He’s up to eight: Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, CU, CSU, Illinois, Kansas, Kansas State and Syracuse have also offered.

Elsewhere in the world of preps:

• Sterling’s 4A basketball champions will be honored with a mini-parade of sorts through Sterling.

The most anticipated local announcement on signing day won’t, in fact, happen on signing day.

With Mullen closed again today due to the weather, the school has canceled its planned 7:30 a.m. ceremony. That means that linebacker Leilon Willingham, the second-ranked prospect in our recruiting rankings, won’t be deciding among his five finalists today.

Willingham was then going to choose a school and then sign his letter of intent at his house at 2 p.m. today — along with teammate Adonis Ameen-Moore, who is headed to Syracuse — but he ultimately opted to do so at the school’s rescheduled ceremony, which is now at 7 a.m. Thursday.

Willingham has narrowed his college choices to Arizona State, Colorado, Michigan, UCF and Washington.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.